Keyword: mechanotranduction
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Hydrodynamic stimulation of gastrulation in Nematostella early embryos: mechanotransduction mechanisms
The evolutionary emergence of the primitive gut in Metazoa is one of the decisive events that conditioned the major evolutionary transition having led to the origin of animal development. It is thought to have been induced by the specification of the endomesoderm into the multicellular tissue and its invagination (i.e. gastrulation). However, the biochemical signals…